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Belarus Co-Founded a Global AI Body. Thirteen Documents Noticed.
Minsk signed the WAICO agreement in Shanghai on 16 July. Across three million documents of Belarusian media, the story produced thirteen items, five of…
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What the State Counts vs What the State Says
An official GDP print at half the plan, a leaked internal grade for the flagship plants, and a yearbook that quietly dropped its fiscal chapters.
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Two Ledgers: Lukashenka's Administration Is Gaining Mandate and Losing People
BIPART has produced the first systematic study of the Presidential Administration. Its own evidence supports a second reading the study does not make.
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A Forecast Worth Scoring
The Center for New Ideas has put numbers on the Belarusian transition. Here is what our own prediction audit says about numbers like these and what a…
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Closing the Shops, Losing the Discourse: Belarus's July Purge of Identity Infrastructure
In ten July days, three Belarusian identity brands were shut down, the country's largest historical festival was cancelled, and Kupalle was banned in a…
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The Weapon Points North: How Belarus Re-Aimed Its Migration Pressure at Latvia
Poland's border recorded a 98% drop in crossing attempts this half-year. Latvia's broke records. The migration instrument wasn't retired — it was…
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How Brussels Talks to Belarus: Ten Years of EU Communication in One Dataset
We ingested the complete Belarus archive of the EU's own regional communication portal — 2,129 items since 2016. Read as data, the voice of Brussels…
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The Two Months When Belarus Had a Voice
Here is a number I cannot stop thinking about.
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The Cure Before the Diagnosis: Belarus's Six-Month Campaign to Normalize Labor Import
On July 9, Lukashenko invited Uzbek workers to Belarus — with their families. Our corpus shows state media spent half a year preparing the ground…
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Civil Society Inside Belarus Goes Quiet in Independence Day Week
Weekly Signals · 29 June – 5 July 2026
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From Pendulum to Tightrope: What 3 Million Documents Reveal About Belarus in H1 2026
Six months ago, our AI system predicted Belarus would keep swinging between East and West. It was half right. The regime stopped swinging — and started…
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